I installed linux using the live cd from the Samsung drive and it worked fine. It is the Secondary master IDE drive for this dual boot system. It works fine in Windows but when booting to linux, it seems to always think there is a blank CD in the drive and it appears on the desktop "CD ROM Disk". If I double click that it goes to CD/DVD creator in the file browser. Also in the file browser is "CD ROM 1" but I only have one drive. When selecting that I get a "unable to select mounted volume" error which also says "mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist" I'm not sure what else to do. I have mint 3.0 with all the available updates installed now. (it didn't work before updating either)

Is that your entire fstab?
Then where is hda and hdb2,3 and 4?
No I don't go to the IM channel any more - I found it disturbing to keep an eye on it
And with the number of questions I answer (like scorp123) in my spare time I decided I don't have the time for it.
Yes I know Clem is there - but he's a monster seems to be able to do a thousand things at the same time A somewhat long answer - but others may read